SOLUTION: The golden ratio. The ancient Greeks though that the most pleasing shape for a rectangle was one for which the ratio of the length to the width was 8 to 5, the golden ratio. If

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Question 149682This question is from textbook Elementary and Intermediate Algebra
: The golden ratio. The ancient Greeks though that the most pleasing shape for
a rectangle was one for which the ratio of the length to the width was 8 to 5,
the golden ratio. If the length of a rectangular painting is 2 ft longer than it’s width, then for what dimensions would the length and width have the golden ratio?
This question is from textbook Elementary and Intermediate Algebra

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length: 16/3 ft
width: 10/3 ft